Improvement in combined seeding-machine and cultivator



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LORENZO BARTLETT, OF CARDINGTON, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 94,065, dated August 24, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED vSIEIEI'DINGf-MACI-IIIIIEI .AND C'LTI'VATOR.

The Schedule referred to :in these Letters .Patent4 and making part O the-Same.

To all rollout it may concern:

Beit known that I, LORENZO BARTLETT, of Car dington, in the county of Morrow, and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements rnvSeedrng-'Machme and Gultivator combined; and I fdo hereby 'declare' that the'followingis a full, complete plete description ofthe same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, malringa part of this specification, in which'- Figure 1 is atop view of the machine.

Figure 2, a side view.

gure 3, a view of the rear end.

Figure 4, detachedsection.

This invention relates to a machine for planting com and other grain, and for cultivating the soil previous to and after the seeding has been done, tlrus combining in one implement a seeder and cultivator, as hereinafter more fully described.

In lig. 1, A is a frame mounted upon the wheels B, said wheels being secured to the shaft C, which is operated thereby, by the application of the Yclutches D, which are made to engage and disengage with the shaft of the wheels as the nature of the work rnay require, the same being actuated by the lever E, said lever moving the clutches by the intervention of the links F.

On the top of the frame referred to, are secured the seed-boxes G, which are of a circular form, and so arranged that lthe conductors H, fig. 3, proceeding from the bottom thereof, are about four feet apart, or the distance that the corn is to be planted. p y Each Vbor: is provided with a supplementary bottom, G', iig. 4, also indicated by the dotted lines a, figs. 2 and 3, which, as will be seen, is free to revolve therein by means of a vertical shaft indicated by the dotted lines b, igs. 2 and 3. The lower end of said shaft penetrates the bottom of the box, and is keyed to the bevelled gear J, Whereas the upper end is sustained bythe stay K, projected across the diam.

eter. of the box as seen in fig. 1. Said shaft is operated by the corresponding bevel-wheel -K, with which it engages, as shown in lig. 3, as andfor a purpose hereinafter described. c, iig. 1, are seed-holes or cups, having a capacity to hold from four to six grains of corn. Said cups are made entirely through the supplementaryT bottom to the bottom of the seeditroxes. Attached to the under side Vof the supplementary bottom, and immediately under the cups or holes, is a valve, o, Iig. 4, alsoindirated by the dotted lilies ein iig. 3, which forms the bottom oi the cups.

L, iig. 4, is ashield or guard. One end of said shield Y is raised above the bottom, whereas the opposite end is close down upon it, thereby forming an open month at one end and close at the other', the purpose of which will presently be shown'.

` To the rear .end of the machine is hung, on the bar A', a series of plows or shares' B', secured to the standards C', and which are so arranged in relation to the tube D' ofthe seed-boxes as to follow immediately vunder the shield, also passes over an behind them, or they may be adjusted on the bar at any v'such distance therefrom, and in relation to, as may be required.

. Said plows are connected to the front. of the frame by the chains F attached to 4the revolving shaft m, whereby they are prevented from being dragged back while in use7 and by which they may be raised or lowered, according to the depth that they may be required to run into the ground, by means ot' the lever n, attached to the shaft and operated by the hand of the driver.

Having thus described the construction and arrangement of the seeder, the practical operation of the same is as follows, viz:

The seed is put intothe boxes G,'and as the machine moves forward in the line of work, the disk or supplementary bottom, G', is made to revolve by the action of' the wheels J K. Each cup, as it passes the bottomiof the box immediately over the tubev or conductor' H' at this point. The valve e, referred to, dropsdown, thereby allowing the grain to fall out and into the tube, thenceto the ground. The shield cov- 'ering the cup, prevents more grain than the eupful from falling through, and which, on passing over the V opening in th'e bottom of the box, the valve is closed by being drawn against the opposite edge of the opening. The cup is again illed on emergingfrom under the lower edge of the shield or guard into fthe grain. The distance that the cupsare from each other, and the time required for each one to come in open relation to the opening in the bottom of the seed-boxes, are so arranged and timed, that the grain from the cup into the tube at the distance of' each .four feet passed'over, and as :tast as it falls, it is -cov' ered by the plows or shares immediately following.

By device, two rows of' corn are planted at once,at regular and equal distances apart, and cov-v ered by the plows referred to; and should it be required to use the machine without the seeding-apporratus, said apparatus can'be switched out of gear by the lever and clutches above described, and the plows which may be more or lessin number, adjusted for the service of general fieldwork, or for cultivating in along the rows of corn or other plants that may have been planted in rows. v

The depth ofthe cultivation is regulated by the chains attached to the shares, which, on being wound up on the shaft, raise the plows or lower tireur as, the caso may be.

What I claim as my invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The plows B', shaft on, chains E', supplementary bottom G', shield L, and valve e, all constructed, and arranged, and combined to operate as and for the purpose substantially as described.

LORENZO BARTLETT.

Witnesses:

J. H; BnnRrDen, FRANK- S. ALBEN.

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